NOTES

1.Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966); John Bellamy Foster, “The Financialization of Accumulaion,” Monthly Review 62/5 (October 2010).

2.See David Rothkopf, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World they are Making (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).

3.CFR, Annual Report 2000, 18; Annual Report 2007, 13. Hereafter CFR, AR date, and page.

4.Dada Maheshvarananda, After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action (San German, PR: InnerWorld Publications, 2012), 292.

5.Samir Amin, The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2013), 9, 45–48.

6.CFR, AR 1994, 12.

7.CFR, AR 2007, 13.

8.CFR, AR 2014, 6, 81–88.

9.Peter Grose, Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996 (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2006), 8.

10.Whitney H. Shepardson, Early History of the Council on Foreign Relations (Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1960), 16.

11.CFR, AR 2013, 31–33.

12.Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977), 16–17, 104–5.

13.Social Register Association, Social Register, 1930 (New York: Social Register, 1929).

14.Herbert Heaton, A Scholar in Action: Edwin F. Gay (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952), 51.

15.Grose, Continuing the Inquiry, xiii–xiv.

16.Shoup and Minter, Imperial Brain Trust, 20.

17.Grose, Continuing the Inquiry, 27–28.

18.Ibid., 1.

19.Isaiah Bowman, The New World: Problems in Political Geography (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1928), 14.

20.Foster Bain, Ores and Industry in the Far East (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1927).

21.Shoup and Minter, Imperial Brain Trust, 117–87.

22.Grose, Continuing the Inquiry, 41–42.

23.CFR, AR 1951, 2.

24.William P. Bundy, The History of Foreign Affairs, 1994, 3, available at www.cfr.org.

25.Ibid., 6.

26.Grose, Continuing the Inquiry, 41.

27.Shoup and Minter, Imperial Brain Trust, 200–201.

28.Ibid., 207–12; Grose, Continuing the Inquiry, 43–44.

29.Russell H. Fifield, Southeast Asia in United States Policy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1963), 4–5.

30.Shoup and Minter, Imperial Brain Trust, 233–38.

31.Ibid., 240–49; Grose, Continuing the Inquiry, 49–53.

32.John Franklin Campbell, “The Death Rattle of the Eastern Establishment,” New York, September 20, 1971, 47–51.

33.CFR, AR 1970, 82–93.

34.Ferdinand Lundberg, America’s 60 Families (New York: Citadel Press), 19.

35.Stewart Alsop, Nixon and Rockefeller: A Double Portrait (New York: Doubleday, 1960), 41.

36.Sylvia A. Allegretto, The State of Working America’s Wealth, 2011 (Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper # 292, 2011), 6, 8, 14.

37.Financial Times, May 6, 2012, 2.

38.See G. William Domhoff, ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth, 2012; Edward N. Wolff, “Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising Debt and the Middle Class Squeeze—An Update to 2007,” Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 589, Bard College, 2010.

39.Financial Times, May 6, 2012, 4.

40.WealthInsight, World City Millionaire Rankings, May 2013; available at www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/may/08/cities-top-millionaires-billionaires.

41.Richard Florida, “What Is the World’s Most Economically Powerful City?” The Atlantic, May 8, 2012; Financial Times, October 2, 2014, 15.

42.See the richest.com at www.nbcnews.com/10richest presidents.

43.CFR, AR 2007, 71.

44.Ibid.

45.David Rockefeller, Memoirs (New York: Random House, 2003), 138–39.

46.Ibid., 83.

47.Ibid., 88.

48.Ibid., 215.

49.New York Times, October 20, 2003, F8.

50.Rockefeller, Memoirs, 247–48.

51.Ibid., 258.

52.Ibid.

53.Ibid., 264, 272–76, 282, 301–2.

54.Ibid., 311, 369.

55.Ibid., 154.

56.Daniel Schafer, “Rockefellers and Rothschilds Unite,” The Independent (London), May 31, 2012; Tom Bawden, “Transatlantic Alliance between Rothschilds and Rockefellers for Wealth Management,” Financial Times, May 29, 2012.

57.CFR, AR 2013, 43, 54.

58.Peter G. Peterson, The Education of an American Dreamer . . . (New York: Hachette Book Group, 2009), 44–51.

59.Charles Moritz, Current Biography Yearbook (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1972), 350.

60.Peterson, The Education, 125–26.

61.Ibid., 128.

62.Ibid., 156–206.

63.Ibid., 124.

64.Ibid.

65.Ibid., 91.

66.Ibid., 309.

67.Elizabeth A. Schick, Current Biography Yearbook (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1997), 473.

68.George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 223.

69.Tariq Ali, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad (London: Verso, 2010), 90.

70.Eric Dash & Louise Story, “Rubin Leaving Citigroup; Smith Barney for Sale,” New York Times, January 9, 2009.

71.Politico, April 8, 2010. See www.politico.com/news/stories0410/35515.html.

72.Robert Rubin, “Slaying the Dragon of Debt: Fiscal Politics and Policy Since the 1970s” (Berkeley: University of California Regional Oral History Project, Bancroft Library, 2011).

73.CFR, AR 2007, 71.

74.John Caher, “Greenberg AIG Case Headed to State Court of Appeals,” New York Law Journal, July 18, 2012.

75.Financial Times, February 28, 2012, 15.

76.Financial Times, March 23–24, 2013, 3.

77.Financial Times, March 1, 2013, 7

78.Financial Times, March 9–10, 2013, 1; March 23–24, 2013, 3.

79.CFR, AR 2007, 71.

80.Leslie H. Gelb, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (New York: HarperCollins, 2009).

81.Financial Times, May 25–26, 2013, 2.

82.See www.forbes.com/profile/richard–haass/; Richard N. Haass, The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course (New York: PublicAffairs, 2005).

83.See blogs.ft.com/the–a–list/2013/04/09/thatcher.

84.See www.laurenceshoup.com for more details about many other individual CFR directors during the 1976–2014 era.

85.CFR, AR 1987, 87.

86.CFR, AR 1978, 75; 1987, 167; 1995, 125–26; 2003, 88; 2006, 65.

87.CFR, AR 1995, 107; 1997, 96; 2000, 108; 2006, 60.

88.www.forbes.com/profilemartin–feldstein/.

89.CFR, AR 2014, 33; www.rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/roster.pdf; americanassembly.org/people/trustee/steven-stamas.

90.See WealthInsight World City Millionaire Rankings, May 2013. http:ftalphaville.ft.com/files/2013/05/world-cities-wealth-briefing.pdf.

91.CFR, AR 2011, 31–52; 2012, 33–54. A list of over 125 of the most prominent, most powerful, and most well known of the Council’s capitalist-class members can be found at www.laurenceshoup.com. They are listed by name together with available information about wealth level and connections. This list is indicative and instructive, but by no means definitive. The list includes prominent capitalist members listed in the Annual Reports of 2011 and 2012 only.

92.CFR, AR 1999, 6.

93.CFR, AR 1981, 20.

94.Ibid., 91–92.

95.CFR, AR 1986, 101.

96.CFR, AR 2014, 32.

97.CFR, AR 2011, 24.

98.CFR, AR 2012, 26; 2013, 30; 2014, 32.

99.CFR, AR 1984, 12.

100. CFR, AR 2011, 28.

101. CFR, AR 2014, 5.

102. CFR, AR 2011, 30.

103. Ibid., 28.

104. CFR, AR 2014, 39.

105. Ibid.

106. Steve Clemons, www.huffingtonpost.com/steve–clemons/theimpact-today-and-tomo_b_786578.html..

107. CFR, AR 1977, 4.

108. CFR, AR 1978, 14, 75–77.

109. CFR, AR 1980, 14.

110. CFR, AR 1980, 74–75, 82.

111. CFR, AR 1981, 6.

112. CFR, AR 1983, 12.

113. CFR, AR 1981, 88–89; 1982, 97–98.

114. CFR, AR 1984, 94.

115. Newsweek, October 2, 1972, 40.

116. CFR, AR 1985, 104; 1988, 113.

117. CFR, AR 1987, 43, 84.

118. CFR, AR 1988, 103.

119. CFR, AR 1990, 60; 1991, 41.

120. Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (New York: Crown, 2011).

121. CFR, AR 1990, 105–6.

122. Ibid., 15.

123. CFR, AR 1993, 7.

124. Ibid., 7.

125. Ibid., 10, 13.

126. CFR, AR 1994, 23–24; 1995, 7.

127. CFR, AR 1981, 6; 1994, 24, 100; 1995, 87–88.

128. CFR, AR 1995, 36.

129. CFR, AR 1996, 45.

130. Ibid., 11.

131. CFR, AR 1997, 85.

132. Ibid., 64.

133. CFR, AR 1998, 80.

134. CFR, AR 2014, 6.

135. CFR, AR 1996, 79.

136. CFR, AR 1997, 6.

137. Ibid., 7, 13.

138. CFR, AR 1999, 69.

139. CFR, AR 2001, 15.

140. Ibid., 52–53.

141. CFR, AR 2005, 40–43.

142. CFR, AR 1981, 6; 2007, 10, 27.

143. CFR, AR 2007, 9, 41.

144. Ibid., 13.

145. Pew Research Center, America’s Place in the World 2013, 46, 53, 70. www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/12-3-2013.

146. Ibid., 65.

147. Ibid., 73–74.

148. Ibid., 76.

149. CFR, AR 2014, 65.

150. Ibid., 63.

151. Financial Times, Special Report, November 21, 2011, 1.

152. Financial Times, December 22, 2011, 16.

153. Ibid.

154. “Fortune 500: America’s Largest Corporations,” Fortune. May 3, 2010.

155. Financial Times, November 27, 2011, 1.

156. Ibid.

157. CFR, AR 2005, 44.

158. Ibid., 45.

159. CFR, AR 2012, 15.

160. CFR, AR 2005, 45.

161. CFR, AR 2008, 46.

162. CFR, AR 2010, 8.

163. CFR, AR 2011, 5; lists of the Council’s corporate membership as of 1993 and 2011 can be found at laurenceshoup.com.

164. CFR, AR 2008, 12.

165. CFR, AR 2012, 18.

166. CFR, AR 2014, 8.

167. CFR, AR 2012. 18.

168. Ibid., 8.

169. Ibid., 18.

170. CFR, AR 1978, 5.

171. CFR, AR 1987, 19.

172. CFR, AR 1996, 13.

173. Ibid., 79.

174. CFR, AR 2013, 78–80.

175. CFR, AR 1989, 60.

176. CFR, AR 1975, 3.

177. CFR, AR 1976, 1–2; 1982, 13.

178. CFR, AR 1976, 1–2.

179. CFR, AR 1977, 5, 65.

180. Ibid., 65.

181. See www.foreignaffairs.com/about-us.

182. Ibid.; CFR, AR 1982, 13; 1988, 13; 2000, 55.

183. See www.foreignaffairs.com/about-us/advertising/circulation.

184. CFR, AR 1994, 10.

185. CFR, AR 1977, 7.

186. CFR, AR 2000, 55.

187. CFR, AR 2014, 29.

188. CFR, AR 1982, 16–17, 20.

189. CFR, AR 1980, 15, 53.

190. CFR, AR 1989, 12.

191. CFR, AR 1998, 15.

192. CFR, AR 1997, 29–30; 1998, 15; 2011, 4.

193. CFR, AR 2001, 6.

194. CFR, AR 1997, 34.

195. CFR, AR 1994, 7.

196. CFR, AR 1997, 23.

197. CFR, AR 2001, 6.

198. Ibid., 7.

199. Ibid.

200. Ibid.

201. Ibid.

202. CFR, AR 1998, 15.

203. Ibid.

204. CFR, AR 1997, 29–30.

205. CFR, AR 2000, 18.

206. CFR, AR 1999, 8.

207. CFR, AR 2002, 8.

208. CFR, AR 2001, 13.

209. CFR, AR 2005, 82–83.

210. Ibid.

211. CFR, AR 2002, 7, 10, 25.

212. Ibid., 25.

213. Ibid., 6, 32.

214. CFR, AR 2003, 6–7.

215. Ibid., 9.

216. Ibid., 10.

217. New York Times, June 5, 2003, A11.

218. New York Times, September 9, 2003, B2.

219. Ibid.

220. CFR, AR 2004, 17.

221. Ibid., 20.

222. CFR, AR 2005, 17.

223. Ibid., 17–18.

224. Ibid., 24.

225. CFR, AR 2007, 28.

226. Ibid., 8, 27.

227. Ibid., 13.

228. CFR, AR 2009, 13; 2010, 10; 2011, 14.

229. CFR, AR 2008, 15; 2010, 16.

230. CFR, AR 2008, 15; 2010, 8; 2011, 8.

231. CFR, AR 2011, 17.

232. Ibid., 13.

233. Ibid., 10–11.

234. CFR, AR 2012, 11.

235. Ibid., 16.

236. Ibid.

237. See CFR Experts Guide, at www.cfr.org/thinktank/experts.

238. Ibid.

239. CFR, AR 1976, 23; 1982, 11, 28, 38; 1984, 10; 1986, 39; 1991, 29, 38; 1994, 61; 1998, 54, 56, 61, 68; 2002, 45, 46, 49; 2003, 40.

240. Financial Times, September 30, 2013, 11.

241. CFR, AR 2014, 36.

242. CFR, AR 1976, 11.

243. Ibid., 13–32.

244. CFR, AR 1986, 23–26.

245. Ibid., 24.

246. Ibid., 23.

247. Ibid.

248. Ibid.

249. CFR, AR 1996, 12, 54.

250. CFR, AR 2006, 32.

251. Ibid., 32–33.

252. Ibid., 36–39.

253. Ibid., 40–43.

254. Ibid., 44–45.

255. CFR, AR 2001, 6.

256. CFR, AR 1987, 101.

257. CFR, AR 1989, 132.

258. Ibid.

259. Ibid.

260. CFR, AR 1990, 134.

261. See www.cfr.org/thinktank/iigg/mission.

262. CFR, AR 2011, 9.

263. Ibid.

264. Edward Alden and James M. Lindsay, www.cfr.org/competitiveness/renewing–america.

265. Richard Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order (New York: Basic Books, 2013).

266. Diane Stone and Andrew Denham, eds., Think Tank Traditions: Policy Research and the Politics of Ideas (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2004), 289.

267. Ibid., 286–88.

268. Financial Times, July 8, 2013, 1; CFR, AR 2013, 79.

269. CFR, AR 1996, 155; 2001, 9; 2005, 66.

270. Financial Times, October 12, 2012, 1, 5.

271. Washington Post, November 24, 2008, A13.

272. Financial Times, November 18, 2013, 21.

273. CFR, AR 1977, 1.

274. CFR, AR 2011, 30.

275. CFR, AR 1998, 5.

276. CFR, AR 1994, 150; 1996, 163; 1998, 28.

277. CFR, AR 2002, 82; 2003, 89; 2004, 65–66.

278. CFR, AR 2013, 41.

279. CFR, AR 1994, 146; 1995, 148.

280. www.state.gov/s/p/fapb/.

281. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Project on National Security Reform; CFR, AR 2012, 71.

282. Jordan Tama, Terrorism and National Security Reform: How Commissions Can Drive Change during Crises (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 199–205.

283. James G. McGann, Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the United States: Academics, Advisors and Advocates (New York: Routledge, 2007).

284. James G. McGann, The Global “Go–To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World (Philadelphia: Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2010), 36.

285. Ibid., 25.

286. McGann, Think Tanks and Policy Advice, 23.

287. CFR, AR 2005, 86.

288. McGann, Think Tanks and Policy Advice, 75–139.

289. CFR, AR 2007, 94–111.

290. Quotes about the think tanks discussed in the following section are from the websites or Annual Reports of these organizations.

291. The Brookings Institution Annual Report (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2011).

292. Ibid., 1.

293. Richard N. Haass, “Toward Greater Democracy in the Muslim World,” available at www.CFR.org/democratization/toward–greater–democracy–muslim–world, 2002.

294. CFR, AR 1995, 148; 2013, 47.

295. Alton Frye, Humanitarian Intervention: Crafting a Workable Approach (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2000), ix; CFR, AR 2000, 144; 2013, 41.

296. www.aei.org/about; see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American Enterprise Institute.

297. Financial Times, February 15–16, 2014, Life and Arts, 1.

298. Peterson, The Education, 327.

299. See Maurice Zeitlin and Richard E. Ratcliff, Landlords and Capitalists: The Dominant Class of Chile (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988); Michael P. Allen, The Founding Fortunes (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987); Geoffrey Jones and Mary Rose, Family Capitalism (New York: Routledge, 2012); S. Menshikov, Millionaires and Managers (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969); Ferdinand Lundberg, America’s 60 Families (New York: Citadel Press, 1946); Ferdinand Lundberg, The Rich and the Super Rich (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1968).

300. CFR, AR 2007, 48.

301. CFR, AR 2008, 46–47.

302. Financial Times, July 8, 2012, 15; CFR, AR 2012, 55–56.

303. Fortune, May 3, 2010, F-33.

304. CFR, AR 2007, 74.

305. Financial Times, March 5, 2012, 16.

306. CFR, AR 2007, 74.

307. Financial Times, April 10, 2012, 18.

308. Financial Times, March 22, 2013, 23.

309. Financial Times, March 8, 2014, 5.

310. Financial Times, July 8, 2013, 15.

311. CFR, AR 2007, 74.

312. San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, 2013, D4; June 2, 2013, A14.

313. Financial Times, October 24, 2013, 22.

314. Financial Times, March 8, 2014, 5.

315. Financial Times, January 17, 2014, 12.

316. CFR, AR 2013, 61.

317. Ibid., 32.

318. Financial Times, March 8, 2013, 5.

319. Ibid.

320. Ibid.

321. Financial Times, March 1, 2013, 14.

322. Ibid.

323. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976), 194–95.

324. Financial Times, September 23, 2014, 8.

325. Hugh Shelton, Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010), 2.

326. CFR, AR 2013, 46, 54, 56.

327. See www.ricehadleygates.com.

328. CFR, AR 1998, 38–49.

329. CFR, AR 2013, 51.

330. CFR, AR 2011, 40–41.

331. Ibid.

332. Additional information is available at www.laurenceshoup.com.

333. CFR, AR 1981, 151; 1997, 138; 2000, 152.

334. Financial Times, November 11, 2011, 9.

335. Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (New York: Penguin Press, 2012), xiv.

336. See www.bilderbergmeetings.org.

337. See Paul H. Jeffers, The Bilderberg Conspiracy: Inside the World’s Most Powerful Secret Society (New York: Kensington Publishing, 2009), 2.

338. Rockefeller, Memoirs, 411.

339. Ibid., 412.

340. CFR, AR 2013, 31–33; David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1995), 137.

341. Rockefeller, Memoirs, 416.

342. Ibid., 416–17.

343. Michael J. Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki, The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission (New York: New York University Press, 1975), 106, 113.

344. Ibid., 65–67, 113.

345. See http//trilateral.org/go.cfm?do=Page.View&pid=6.

346. Ibid.; CFR, AR 2012, 27–28.

347. See http//trilateral.org/.download/file/TClist_2_15pdf.

348. The Trilateral Commission (North America) Annual Report, 1984–85, 23–25.

349. William K. Carroll, The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century (London: Zed Books, 2010), 44.

350. Klaus Schwab, “A Breakdown in Our Values,” The Guardian, January 6, 2010.

351. World Economic Forum, The World Economic Forum: A Partner in Shaping History, the First 40 Years, 1971–2010 (Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2009), 229.

352. Ibid., 88, 111, 113, 115, 124, 140, 152, 163, 171, 178, 197–98, 203, 207, 226, 232, 245, 256.

353. Financial Times, January 17–18, 2015, 3.

354. Henry Blodget, “The Truth about Davos,” wwwbusinessinsider.com/costs–of–davos–2011–1, January 26, 2011.

355. World Economic Forum, The World Economic Forum, 253; CFR, AR 2010, 51–52.

356. www.crisisgroup.org/en/about.aspx.

357. CFR, AR 2009, 19.

358. See www.CFR.org/about/people/global_board_of_advisors.html.

359. Data are from www.CFR.org and CFR, AR 1995, 86; 1996, 108; 1997, 27–28; 1999, 102; 2000, 116; 2001, 83; 2002, 83; 2003, 90; 2004, 67; 2005, 67; 2006, 67; 2007, 74; 2008, 73; 2009, 19; 2013, 2 2014, 71.

360. Financial Times, September 13, 2013, 15.

361. See www.worstpolluted.org/docs/TopTenThreats2013.pdf.

362. Financial Times, October 16, 2014, 1.

363. Financial Times, April 27–28, 2013, Life and Arts, 19.

364. CFR, AR 2014, 71.

365. Financial Times, May 20, 2013, 21.

366. Leslie Sklair, The Transnational Capitalist Class (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001), 282–87.

367. Ibid., 283.

368. Financial Times, June 23–24, 2012, 10.

369. Financial Times, May 22, 2013, 15.

370. The Economist, August 2, 2014, 49.

371. Financial Times, February 11, 2014, 6; Vibhuti Agarwal, “Inquiry into Tata Tea over Labor Issues,” Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2014.

372. Financial Times, May 28, 2013, Arab World, 4.

373. CFR, AR 2012, 47.

374. Financial Times, April 13–14, 2013, 7.

375. Ibid.

376. Financial Times, May 24, 2013, 16.

377. Carroll, The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class, 143.

378. Ibid., 144.

379. Financial Times, December 7, 2012, 3.

380. CFR, AR 2012, 55–56.

381. See Council of Councils Overview at cfr.org/projects/world/council–of–councils.

382. CFR, AR 2013, 69.

383. Ibid.

384. CFR, AR 1981, 63.

385. John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney, and R. Jamil Jonna, “The Internationalization of Monopoly Capital,” Monthly Review 63/2 (June 2011): 21.

386. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 10–11.

387. Ibid., 2.

388. Financial Times, December 4, 2012, 9.

389. Financial Times, March 20, 2014, 16.

390. Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 54–55.

391. See Wolff, “Recent Trends in Household Wealth . . .”

392. Freeland, Plutocrats, 35; Credit Suisse, Global Wealth Data Book (Zurich: Credit Suisse Research Institute, 2010) 20–23, 78, 93.

393. James B. Davies, Susanna Sandstrom, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward Wolff, “World Distribution of Household Wealth” (Santa Cruz, CA: Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, University of California, 2007), 7–8.

394. San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2014, C3.

395. Credit Suisse, Global Wealth Data Book, 81.

396. Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 159.

397. Financial Times, December 31, 2013, 5.

398. See Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Henry Holt), 2007.

399. Kenneth Maxwell, “The Other 9/11: The United States and Chile, 1973,” Foreign Affairs 82/6 (November–December 2003): 151.

400. See U.S. CIA Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup in Chile, 1970–1976, Project Fubelt, NationalSecurityArchive, www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm; and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_FUBELT.

401. Stephen Kinzer, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (NewYork: Times Books, 2006), 182.

402. Paul E. Sigmund, “The ‘Invisible Blockade’ and the Overthrow of Allende,” Foreign Affairs 52/2 (January 1974); CFR, AR 1974, 107.

403. See Sigmund, “The ‘Invisible Blockade.’”

404. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 86–87.

405. CFR, AR 1976, 33; Albert Fishlow, Carlos F. Diaz–Alejandro, Richard R. Fagen, and Roger D. Hansen, Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations and McGraw-Hill, 1978), xi.

406. CFR, AR 1976, 33.

407. Fishlow et al., Rich and Poor Nations . . . , ix–x.

408. Ibid., 56, 63, 65, 78.

409. Ibid., 71–72.

410. Miriam Camps and Catherine Gwin, Collective Management: The Reform of Global Economic Organizations (New York: Council on Foreign Relations and McGraw-Hill, 1982), 2.

411. CFR, AR 1976, vi, 136–37; 1978, 119; 1981, 141; 1986, 2; 2002, 2; 2011, 25–26.

412. CFR, AR 2011, 25–26.

413. JeffMadrick, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), 10, 20, 24–25.

414. Walter Wriston, Risk and Other Four-Letter Words (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), viii, x.

415. Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 52.

416. Ibid., 81; CFR, AR 1978, 119.

417. Andrew D. Crain, The Ford Presidency: A History (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 41, 202.

418. Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence, 71, 82.

419. Laurence H. Shoup, The Carter Presidency and Beyond: Power and Politics in the 1980s (Palo Alto, CA: Ramparts Press, 1980), 173, 186–87.

420. Business Week, April 10, 1978, 126.

421. Joseph B. Treaster, Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend (New York: John Wiley, 2004), 38; William R. Neikirk, Volcker: Portrait of the Money Man (New York: Congdon & Weed, 1987), 78–79.

422. Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence, 84.

423. William Greider, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Rules the Country (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), 47.

424. New York Times, July 26, 1979, 16; Financial Times, September 21–22, 2013, 7.

425. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (London: Verso, 2012), 172.

426. Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence, 86; Madrick, Age of Greed, 161–62; Greider, Secrets of the Temple, 430.

427. Harold van B. Cleveland and Ramachandra Bhagavatula, “The Continuing World Economic Crisis,” Foreign Affairs 59/3 (1980): 594, 604.

428. Alan Greenspan, “The Reagan Legacy,” remarks presented at the Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, CA, April 9, 2003, www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/speeches/2003/.../default.htm.

429. Alan Greenspan, Testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, February 26, 1997, federalreserve. gov/boarddocs/hh/1997/february/testimony.htm.

430. Panitch and Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism, 435n8.

431. CFR, AR 2011, 25.

432. Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence, 86–87, 282.

433. Madrick, Age of Greed, 225.

434. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 268.

435. Ryan Grim, “Priceless: How the Federal Reserve Bought the Economics Profession,” HuffingtonPost.com, May 25, 2011.

436. Panitch and Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism, 249.

437. Ibid., 228.

438. Karl Marx, The Portable Karl Marx, selected, translated in part, and with an introduction by Eugene Kamenka (New York: Penguin Books, 1983), 209.

439. Panitch and Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism, 252–54.

440. Madrick, Age of Greed, 243.

441. Ibid., 226, 240, 248.

442. Credit Suisse, Global Wealth Data Book, 20–23, 72–75, 81, 93–94.

443. Financial Times, October 31, 2013, 2.

444. Transcript of the launch of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, February 15, 2002, www.cfr.org/.../launch–maurice–r–greenberg–center–geoeconomic–studies.../

445. CFR, AR 1975, 105; 2013, 31.

446. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Game Plan: A Geostrategic Framework for the Conduct of the U.S. Soviet Contest (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986); The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1997).

447. Brzezinski, Game Plan, xiii–xiv.

448. Ibid., 33.

449. Ibid., 30.

450. Ibid., 30–42, 253.

451. Ibid., 41.

452. Ibid., 48.

453. Ibid., 51.

454. Ibid., 52–53.

455. Zbigniew Brzezinski, “A Geostrategy for Eurasia,” Foreign Affairs 76/5 (September–October 1997): 50–51.

456. Ibid., 51–58, 62–64.

457. CFR, AR 2000, 143; 2003, 109.

458. Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 2002).

459. Ibid., 410.

460. Ibid., xvi, xx, 284.

461. Ibid., 336, 347, 350, 352.

462. Joseph S. Nye Jr., Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 1990); and Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2004).

463. CFR, AR 1975, 112; 2013, 32.

464. Nye Jr., Soft Power, xvi.

465. Ibid., x, xiii, 6.

466. Ibid., xiii.

467. Ibid., 5.

468. Ibid., x, xiii.

469. Michael Mandelbaum, The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the 21st Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2005).

470. CFR, AR 1976, 131; 1988, 58; 1990, 199; 1995, 131, 151; 2003, 109, 126.

471. Mandelbaum, The Case for Goliath, xi–xii.

472. Ibid., xv.

473. Ibid., xv–xvi.

474. Ibid., xvii–xix; 67, 141, 161.

475. Ibid., 24–25, 27.

476. Ibid., 71.

477. Ibid., 49–50.

478. Ibid., 77.

479. Ibid., 200.

480. Ibid., 97, 170–71.

481. Walter Russell Mead, Power, Terror, Peace and War: America’s Grand Strategy in a World at Risk (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004).

482. CFR, AR 1997, 137; 1998, 121.

483. Mead, Power, Terror, Peace and War, 214–16.

484. Ibid., 7–9, 19, 21, 23.

485. Ibid., 25–44, 160.

486. Ibid., 25–28, 43.

487. Ibid., 25, 29–36.

488. Ibid., 25, 36–44.

489. Ibid., 44–81.

490. Ibid., 71.

491. Ibid., 196.

492. Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home, iii.

493. Ibid., 1, 3.

494. Ibid., 16, 21.

495. Ibid., 15–16.

496. Ibid., 78–82, 110, 113.

497. Ibid., 104–5.

498. Ibid., 121.

499. Ibid., 126–27.

500. Ibid., 128, 134–61.

501. CFR, AR 2013: 61–62.

502. Steve Pearlstein, “Caterpillar to Unions: Drop Dead,” Washington Post, August 4, 2012; Alexandra Brown, “GE to Unions: Drop Dead,” Labor Notes, May 24, 2011.

503. Robert D. Blackwill and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, “America’s Energy Edge: The Geopolitical Consequences of the Shale Revolution,” Foreign Affairs 93/2 (March–April. 2014): 109–10.

504. James M.Lindsay, cfr.org/iraq/Lindsay-successful-constitution-vote.

505. CFR, AR 1980, 62, 129.

506. Melvin A. Conant, The Oil Factor in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1980–1990 (Lexington, MA: A Council on Foreign Relations Book, D.C. Heath, 1982), xiii, 3, 29.

507. Paul Jabber, Gary Sick, Hisahiko Okazaki, and Dominique Moisi, Great Power Interests in the Persian Gulf (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1989), 1–2, 16–17, 32.

508. Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf, The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), 399.

509. James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), 209–10; CFR, AR 1990, 197–99, 207.

510. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 209–10.

511. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century.

512. Richard N. Haass, The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States after the Cold War (New York: A Council on Foreign Relations Book, 1997), 71.

513. Ibid., 73.

514. Richard N. Haass, “What to Do with American Primacy,” Foreign Affairs 78/5 (September–October 1999).

515. Fouad Ajami, “The Sentry’s Solitude,” Foreign Affairs 80/6 (November–December 2001).

516. Kenneth M. Pollack, “Next Stop Baghdad?,” Foreign Affairs 81/2 (March–April 2002).

517. Kenneth M. Pollack, The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq (New York: A Council on Foreign Relations Book, Random House, 2002).

518. Ibid., 425–26.

519. CFR, AR 2002, 6.

520. Pollack, “Next Stop Baghdad?”; Pollack, The Threatening Storm, xv, xxx.

521. Pollack, The Threatening Storm, 337.

522. Ibid., 335–38.

523. Ibid., 338.

524. Ibid., 397.

525. Ibid., xxv, 424.

526. Kenneth M. Pollack, “Securing the Gulf,” Foreign Affairs 82/4 (July–August. 2003), 3, 4.

527. Sebastian Mallaby, “The Reluctant Imperialist: Terrorism, Failed States, and the Case for American Empire,” ” Foreign Affairs 81/2 (March–April 2002) 6.

528. Donald Rumsfeld, “Transforming the Military,” Foreign Affairs 81/3 (May–June 2002); Elliot Cohen, “A Tale of Two Secretaries,” Foreign Affairs 81/3 (May–June 2002).

529. Michael Mandelbaum, “U.S. Must Plan Post-Hussein Iraq,” Newsday, August 1, 2002.

530. Ruth Wedgwood, “Strike at Saddam Now,” National Law Journal, October 28, 2002.

531. See www.cfr.org/iraq/us-has-strategically-sound-morally-just-reasons-invade-iraq-says-councils-middle-east-director-rachel-bronson/p5303.

532. See www.cfr.org/iraq/us-still-looking-smoking-gun-justify-overthrow-saddam-hussein.

533. G. John Ikenberry, “America’s Imperial Ambition,” Foreign Affairs 81/5 (September–October. 2002).

534. CFR, AR 2003, 40–71.

535. CFR, AR 2002, 112, 118, 120, 127.

536. CFR, AR 2004, 32.

537. Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2003; rev. ed., 2005).

538. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans.

539. Ibid., 373.

540. Daalder and Lindsay, America Unbound, 231.

541. Ibid., 15, 231.

542. Ibid., 97; Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 251–53, 332.

543. CFR, AR 2002, 111, 122, 125, 127.

544. Daalder and Lindsay, America Unbound, 29, 111, 116, 130–133; Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, xv–xvi, 251–52, 273, 316–17.

545. CFR, AR 2002, 112, 113, 115, 117, 118, 120, 127.

546. Richard N. Haass, War of Necessity War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009), 222–23, 247.

547. CFR, AR 2002, 90, 109, 113, 121, 124, 127.

548. Daalder and Lindsay, America Unbound, 28–30, 130–133; Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 140, 334–38.

549. Haass, War of Necessity War of Choice, 216–18.

550. New York Times, January 14, 2004, A15.

551. Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004), ix

552. Ibid., 96.

553. Daalder and Lindsay, America Unbound, 135.

554. Edward P. Djerejian, Frank G. Wisner, Rachel Bronson, and Andrew S. Weiss, Guiding Principles for U.S. Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq, Report of an Independent Working Group of the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University and the Council on Foreign Relations (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2003).

555. Ibid., 4.

556. Ibid., 19.

557. Ibid., 3, 11, 24.

558. Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence, 463.

559. Greg Palast, “Unreported: The Zarqawi Invitation,” www.ZCommunications.org, 2006.

560. Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2003, 1.

561. CFR, AR 2003, 11, 13.

562. CFR, AR 1990, 190.

563. Antonia Juhasz, “Capitalism Gone Wild,” Tikkun 19/1 (January–February, 2004); Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 345–48; Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 6.

564. CFR, AR 1987, 140.

565. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 337.

566. Ibid., 345; http://reliefweb.int/report/Iraq/chief-us-administrator-Iraq-reviews-progress-plans-Iraq-reconstruction, 2003.

567. Brookings Institution, Iraq Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2009).

568. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 351.

569. Ibid., 366.

570. New York Times, November 2, 2003, WK1, WK3.

571. New York Times, August 20, 2003, A1.

572. Brookings Institution, Iraq Index, 2009.

573. CFR, AR 1982, 165.

574. Michael Hirsh, “Tough Diplomacy,” Newsweek, February 16, 2005.

575. Scott Shane, “Cables Show Central Negroponte Role in 80’s Covert War against Nicaragua,” New York Times, April 13, 2005.

576. Scott Shane, “Poker-faced Diplomat, Negroponte Is Poised for Role as Spy Chief,” New York Times, March 29, 2005.

577. Scott Shane, “Cables Show Central Negroponte Role in 80’s Covert War against Nicaragua,” New York Times, April 13, 2005.

578. Financial Times, December 24, 2011, 3.

579. Financial Times, November 17–18, 2012, 7.

580. CFR, AR 1986, 162.

581. CFR, AR 2014, 19.

582. Jeremy Scahill, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (New York: Nation Books, 2013), 164.

583. Newsweek, January 7, 2005.

584. Peter Maass, “The Way of the Commandos,” The New York Times Magazine, May 1, 2005.

585. Ibid.

586. Ibid.

587. Unsigned, “Revealed: Pentagon’s Link to Iraqi Torture Centers,” The Guardian, March 6, 2013.

588. Ibid.

589. Ibid.

590. David H. Petraeus, “Learning from Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldiering in Iraq,” Military Review (January–February 2006).

591. CFR, AR 2000, 51.

592. CFR, AR 2001, 119.

593. Scahill, Dirty Wars, 147.

594. Ibid., 153.

595. Unsigned, “Camp Nama: British Personnel Reveal Horrors of Secret U.S. Base in Baghdad,” The Guardian, April 1, 2013.

596. Eric Schmitt and Carolyn Marshall, “In Secret Unit’s ‘Black Room’ a Grim Portrait of U.S. Abuse,” New York Times, March 19, 2006.

597. Scahill, Dirty Wars, 258, 348–49.

598. Mike Francis, “Oregon Guard Unit Told to Return Prisoners to Iraqi Abusers,” Seattle Times, August 8, 2004.

599. CFR, AR 2008, 96; CFR, AR 2012, 28.

600. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 340–342; 350–351.

601. CFR, AR 2006, 87, 91, 92, 94, 98–99; 1995, 153.

602. Iraq Study Group, The Way Forward—A New Approach (2006), 68–69. See U.S. Institute of Peace website: usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/_report/...index.html.; CFR, AR 2006, 72–73.

603. Iraq Study Group, The Way Forward, 64; CFR, AR 2006, 86, 90, 92.

604. Iraq Study Group, The Way Forward, 9.

605. Ibid., 56–57.

606. Ibid., 49–50.

607. San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2011, A7.

608. Financial Times, March 19, 2013, 4.

609. CFR, AR 2012, 33, 40, 43.

610. Oakland Tribune, June 15, 2003, 5.

611. Alexander Smoltczyk, “Mystery in Iraq: Are US Munitions to Blame for Basra Birth Defects?,” Der Spiegel, December 18, 2012.

612. Financial Times, March 16–17, 2013, 2.

613. Ibid., 2, 13.

614. Ibid., 2.

615. Financial Times, October 7, 2013, 3; “Western Bank Giants Prepare to Revamp Iraq’s Financial Systems,” Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2009.

616. Financial Times, June 24, 2013, 17.

617. Financial Times, March 16–17, 2013, 13.

618. Financial Times, May 2, 2013, 18; November 29, 2013, 19.

619. CFR, AR 2012, 55–56.

620. See www.gryphon-partners.com.

621. Financial Times, March 19, 2013, 4.

622. Oakland Tribune, March 20, 2013, A11.

623. San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2009, A11; April 19, 2009, A5.

624. Charles A. Kupchan, Reviving the Atlantic Partnership (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2004), vii.

625. Ibid., viii.

626. Ibid., 31–37.

627. Ibid.

628. Ibid., viii, 18–19.

629. Ibid., 19.

630. Ibid., 22–23.

631. Ibid., 25–26.

632. Ibid., 26.

633. Ranajit Guha, Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 14.

634. CFR, AR 2001, 82; CFR, AR 2011, 23; http://trilateral.org/go.cfm?do=page.view+pld=6.

635. CFR, AR 2012, 39, 50.

636. Edward Alden and Matthew J. Slaughter, U.S. Trade and Investment Policy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2011), ix, 6.

637. Ibid., 32–33, 35.

638. Ibid., 36–37, 70.

639. Tom Donilon, “The President’s Free-Trade Path to Prosperity,” Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2013.

640. Financial Times, March 1–2, 2014, 9.

641. Financial Times, September 23, 2013, 9.

642. Frank Sampson Jannuzi, U.S.-China Relations: An Affirmative Agenda, A Responsible Course: Report of an Independent Task Force (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2007).

643. Ibid., xi.

644. Ibid., 107–16.

645. Ibid., 7, 10.

646. Ibid., 58.

647. Ibid., 93–95.

648. Ibid., 47–48.

649. Ibid., 51.

650. Ibid., 54.

651. CFR.org/asia-and-pacific/china’s-maritime-disputes.

652. Ibid.

653. Financial Times, June 26, 2013, 7.

654. CFR, AR 2002, 115, 121, 122, 125; 2012, 28; Daniel S. Markey, U. S. Strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2010), xi.

655. New York Times, October 20, 2012: A10.

656. Peter Landers, “U.S. Not Neutral about Japan, Armitage Told Beijing,” Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2012.

657. Elizabeth C. Economy, “China and Southeast Asia: Take Three,” blogs. cfr.org/asia/2013/10/01/china-and-southeast-asia-take-three/.

658. Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 46, 52, 121.

659. John J. Mearsheimer, “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault,” Foreign Affairs 93/5 (September–October 2014), 80.

660. Ibid.

661. CFR, AR 1995, 9, 30.

662. See www.cfr.org/nato/should–nato–expand/.

663. CFR, AR 1997, 135; 2013, 79.

664. CFR, AR 1997, 39.

665. CFR, AR 2000, 28; 2001, 35; Ronald D. Asmus, Opening NATO’s Door: How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

666. See http://cup.columbia.edu/book/opening-natos-door/9780231127776.

667. Mearsheimer, “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault,” 78–79.

668. Geoffrey R. Pyatt, speeches, interviews with Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt, Embassy of the United States, Ukraine, September 3, 2013, http://ukraine.usembassy.gov/speaches/amb-den.html.

669. Mearsheimer, “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault,” 80–81.

670. CFR, AR, 2013, 52.

671. Mearsheimer, “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault,” 80.

672. CFR, AR 1995, 86; 2004, 67; 2005, 67; Financial Times, September 15, 2014, 9.

673. Financial Times, September 15, 2014, 9.

674. Financial Times, October 7, 2014,11.

675. Financial Times, February 22–23, 2014, Life and Arts, 1–2.

676. San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 2004, A11.

677. Robert D. Blackwill and Walter B. Slocombe, Israel: A Strategic Asset for the United States (Washington, D.C.: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2011), 2–3.

678. Ibid., 4–6.

679. Ibid., 8–17.

680. Eduardo Galeano, Days and Nights of Love and War (London: Pluto Press, 2000), 170.

681. Samuel P.Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 35.

682. CFR, AR 2013, 47, 52, 61–62.

683. Linda Robinson, The Future of U.S. Special Operations Forces (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2013), 33.

684. Ibid., iv.

685. Ibid., vii, ix, 8–9, 14.

686. Ibid., 3, 11, 14;, Linda Robinson, “Special Ops Global Whack-a-Mole,” USA Today, April 8, 2013.

687. Robinson, The Future of U.S. Special Operations Forces, 3–4, 11–12.

688. Ibid., 15–16, 20–21.

689. Ibid., 27.

690. Time, February 11, 2013, 28.

691. Micah Zenko, Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2013), 13, 28n1.

692. Ibid., ix, x, 25, 32–33.

693. Ibid., 3.

694. Ibid., 4.

695. Ibid., 25–27.

696. Ibid., 12, 14.

697. “Monsanto, DuPont Spending Millions to Oppose California’s GMO Labeling Law,” Forbes, August 22, 2012.

698. CFR, AR 2013, 61.

699. David G. Victor and C. Ford Runge, Sustaining a Revolution: A Policy Strategy for Crop Engineering (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2002).

700. Ibid., v.

701. Ibid., 3–11.

702. Ibid., 1–2.

703. Ibid., 25–26.

704. Ibid., 32.

705. Ibid., 35.

706. Ibid., 43–45.

707. Ibid., 46–47.

708. Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001), 281–82.

709. Zia Hag, “Ministry Blames Bt Cotton for Farmer Suicides,” Hindustan Times, March 26, 2012.

710. International Herald Tribune, August 25–26, 2012, 8.

711. International Herald Tribune, August 25–26, 2012, 8, 11; Financial Times, May 4, 2013, 4.

712. San Francisco Chronicle, November 26, 2012, A4; Oakland Tribune, November 29, 2012, A4.

713. San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2013, A11.

714. New York Times, December 5, 2012.

715. CFR, AR 2012, 56.

716. International Herald Tribune, August 25–26, 2012, 11.

717. Ibid., 8, 11; Oakland Tribune, November 29, 2012, A4.

718. CFR, AR 1991, 190; 2013, 54.

719. San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2013, C3.

720. CFR, AR 2012, 36, 40, 42, 45, 46, 50.

721. New York Times, May 30, 2013; San Francisco Chronicle June 2, 2013, D2; CFR, AR 2012, 28, 46, 51.

722. San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2013, C1, C5.

723. Raymond Vernon, ed., The Promise of Privatization: A Challenge for U.S. Policy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988), 20.

724. Ibid., 268, 274.

725. Ibid., 269.

726. Ibid., 163–66.

727. CFR, AR 1995, 31.

728. CFR, AR 2013, 43.

729. Richard Downie, The Road to Recovery: Rebuilding Liberia’s Health System, Report of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, 2012, 16. Available at csis.org/publication/road–recovery.

730. San Francisco Chronicle, October 14, 2014, A2, A13.

731. San Francisco Chronicle, October 18, 2014, A8.

732. Editorial, “Cuba’s Impressive role on Ebola,” New York Times, October 19, 2014.

733. Nicholas X. Rizopoulos, ed., Sea Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1990).

734. Ibid., v–x; CFR, AR 1991, 176–94.

735. Rizopoulos, Sea Changes, viii.

736. CFR, AR 1974, 107; 1975, 109.

737. Rizopoulos, Sea Changes, 116–18.

738. Ibid., 293; CFR, AR 199, 192.

739. Rizopoulos, Sea Changes, 140.

740. Ibid., 138.

741. CFR, AR 1998, 47.

742. CFR, AR 1998, 35.

743. David G. Victor, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming (Princeton: A Council on Foreign Relations Book, Princeton University Press, 2001), xiii.

744. Ibid.

745. Ibid., xi, x.

746. Ibid., 115.

747. Ibid., 21–22, 114.

748. David G. Victor, Climate Change: Debating America’s Policy Options (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2004), v–vi.

749. Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (New York: Penguin Group, 2012), 78, 493.

750. Unsigned, “Toxic Shock,” The Economist, May 26, 2012.

751. Coll, Private Empire, 185–86.

752. Ibid., 225–26.

753. Victor, Climate Change, vi, 6–7, 68–74.

754. Joshua Busby, Climate Change and National Security: An Agenda for Action (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2007), 19.

755. Ibid., 26.

756. Ibid., 17–22.

757. Coll, Private Empire, 547.

758. Leslie Eaton and Geraldine Fabrikant, “Enron’s Collapse: the Losers,” New York Times, December 5, 2001.

759. Michael A. Levi, The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs. Climate Change (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2009), 5.

760. Ibid., 27.

761. Ibid., 40.

762. Michael A. Levi and David G. Victor, Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2008), 11–12.

763. Ibid., 42.

764. Ibid., 3.

765. Ibid.

766. Ibid., 4, 36–37, 92.

767. Ibid., 21.

768. Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home, 129.

769. Ibid., 8, 130–133, 149–50, 152.

770. Ibid., 50.

771. Allan Sielen, “The Devolution of the Seas: The Consequences of Oceanic Destruction,” Foreign Affairs 92/6 (November–December 2013).

772. Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home, 113.

773. San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 2014, 16.

774. Chris Williams, Ecology and Socialism (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010), 72.

775. San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2013, C5.

776. International Energy Agency, worldenergyoutlook.org/resources/energysubsidies, 2014.

777. Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Dlucchi, “A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030,” Scientific American, November 2009; available at www.scientificamerican.com/.../a-path-to-sustainable-energy-by-2030/.

778. Coll, Private Empire, 182–83, 335–40, 535.

779. Richard Heede, “Tracing Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions to Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers, 1854–2012,” Climate Change 122 (January 2014); available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0986.

780. See ibid.; CFR, AR 2013, 61–62.

781. See, for example, Panitch and Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism, 4, 170, 324; and works by Nicos Poulantzas.

782. Panitch and Ginden, The Making of Global Capitalism, 324.

783. CFR, AR 2014, 8.

784. See Hal Draper, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, vol. 1: State and Bureaucracy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977), 584–87.

785. See Robert W. McChesney, “This Isn’t What Democracy Looks Like,” Monthly Review 64/6 (November 2012); John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney, Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Complex is Destroying America (New York: Nation Books, 2013).

786. Laurence H. Shoup, “Corporate Gold: The Presidential Election 2008,” Z Magazine 21/2 (February 2008): 29–31.

787. Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster, “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism,” Monthly Review 61/10 (March 2010): 5.

788. San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 2014, C7; and www.earthweek.com/2014/ew140221.

789. CFR, AR 2007, 99.

790. James K. Galbraith, The Predator State (New York: Free Press, 2008), 169–70.

791. John Bellamy Foster, “The Epochal Crisis,” Monthly Review 65/5 (October 2013): 1.

792. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/margaretme100502.html

793. See “The World’s Most Resource Rich Countries,” www.247wallst.com./special-report/2012/04/18.

794. Fred Magdoff, “Ecological Civilization,” Monthly Review 62/8 (January 2011).

795. John Bellamy Foster, “Why Ecological Revolution,” Monthly Review 61/8 (January 2010).

796. Foster, “The Epochal Crisis,” 11.

797. One is the Belem Ecosocialist Declaration (2007); another is the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth (2010); the third is the Draft Universal Declaration of the Common Good of Humanity (2013). All three are available at laurenceshoup.com.

798. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014).